Pic Of The Moment: Deportation? Pah! Conservatives Now Proposing SLAVERY As Immigration Solution

[EarlG]

Iowa GOP Radio Host Stands By Plan To Enslave Undocumented Immigrants If They Don't Leave

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[DetlefK]

1. What's wrong with slavery? Sounds like he needs some "compelling" with a bull-whip.

[NowSam]

29. This is what we are up against

We should thank them for being so transparent. This election will decide it all. Are we going to let them have it all and complete Bush's vision of an "ownership society" where they own us like slaves or are we going to say "Enough is enough - you can't have it all."

Could our choice really be any clearer than this? Any candidate that is backed by the $$$$$ is out as far as I am concerned. It's Bernie or - The unthinkable ideas like Jan Mickelson's will win.

We must stand together or our fates are sealed.

[Ken Burch]

2. So now they want to get rid of the 13th Amendment, too?

[LonePirate]

13. Only the Second and Tenth Amendments matter to Republicans

For people who claim to love the Constitution, they sure don't like to abide by it.

[SpankMe]

3. Good. Let this piece of shit talk.

This pro-slavery bullshit will help keep African Americans and Hispanics on our side of the next election.

[TBF]

4. Typical republican ... stealing from the labor of others. nt

[Journeyman]

5. At least Edmund Ruffin had the decency to couch his call in compassion for the working class. . .

a benevolent ideal of extending the benefits of slavery to the factory hands and mechanics of the North, that they might labor without the need to worry where their next meal would need to be sought.

Slavery and free labor, described and compared by Edmund Ruffin (c. 1857)

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/rbaapc:@field(DOCID+@lit(rbaapc25000div0))

[zebonaut]

6. His Words in Audio:

http://mediamatters.org/embed/static/clips/2015/08/19/41462/who-thejanmickelsonshow-20150817-janimmigrantslaves


we've been here before

[Babel_17]

7. I hope his advertisers hear about this

Even the mighty Rush Limbaugh has died the death of a thousand cuts as his advertisers keep walking away.

[The Blue Flower]

58. Can someone out there find out who they are?

I'd like to share a few strong words with them. First they support torture, now slavery. I expect that we'll next hear one of them tell us that Jonathan Swift had it right when he published a satirical essay suggesting that we eat the babies of the disenfranchised.

[AlbertCat]

8. "Compelled labor"? "start inventing jobs for them to do"????

Like, oh....picking lettuce?

Isn't "compelled labor" why many come over, because it's impossible make a living at home?


I don't mean to promote stereotypes or anything, but aren't a lot of illegal immigrants here because they HAD to do something dangerous to survive and support their families? It's like the last hope. Otherwise, they'd just do the legal thing, no? Why does he think they risk so much to get here? Because they're bored? (he probably thinks they come here just to sell drugs or something.... not to get away from drug cartels)

I have sympathy for those who are here because of hope for something better than their "home" country.


With media people like this guy and the GOP in general, I hope for something better in MY home country!!!

[awoke_in_2003]

38. and the "deadline" he speaks of

sounds a lot like the signs that used to be on the edge of Sundown towns.

[arcane1]

9. A "Job Creator" indeed.

[NewJeffCT]

10. I hope nobody is surprised by this call

they've been pushing towards this goal for years - just haven't said it outright. Abolishing the minimum wage and the safety net, increasing household debt, etc. Keep it up, and pretty soon you get the "Taxpayer Debt Relief" program where you can work (for free) until your debt is paid off.

On a humorous note, many years back here on DU (maybe 2005 or 2006?), I posted here on DU that I had seen a young woman in Connecticut driving a car with a confederate flag bumper sticker. She also had a "Nuke their ass and take their gas" bumper sticker as well. So, I made the response that how would we retrieve the "gas" from the nuclear wasteland? So, somebody on here made the sarcastic comment, "they would send the illegal immigrants there to do it."

[JackInGreen]

11. ...

What in the unholy fuck is going on. Did Evil decide to work overtime?

[niyad]

16. I think Evil took a look at the pukes, decided he coudn't top them, and retired.

[jtuck004]

12. Nice. And no one interrupts his speech. n/t

[niyad]

15. apparently it was his radio program, so he had the mic.

[jtuck004]

21. Well, as we just learned, just because you have the mic, if people care enough,

they can interrupt you.

But it's always easier preaching to the choir.

[niyad]

14. "what's wrong with slavery?"?????????? how about we put you in chains, have you work in dangerous

conditions, poor or no food, tortured, for about a year, and then you can tell us what is wrong with it.

I mean, there is plenty of infrastructure that needs attending--and reforestation of the west, just for starters.

[Ken Burch]

18. Being tortured while doing dangerous work in chains is probably this guy's fetish.

...just sayin'...

[niyad]

22. ugh, you are probably quite correct. there has to be something a bit twisted about his comments

[Wounded Bear]

17. Great idea...

We can sub-contract them all to corporate interests at $5/day. Saves money, boosts stocks. Win-win.

Unfortunately there are too many people in this world for whom such statements are not

[xocet]

19. Notice Mickelson refers to "...the people who own the country, who pay the bills, pay the taxes...."

I suppose that we are all citizen-shareholders in the USA, not simply US citizens. Some of us clearly do not "...own the country...."

[SoapBox]

20. Ya never know...

Pukes and Baggers would probably love these options if you don't march to their drum beat,

A. Enslavement

B. GITMO

[hibbing]

23. If he was a repbulican candidate his poll numbers would rise

Just like the Trump's did, the more upfront they are with their racism, the higher their poll numbers rise.

Peace

[d_legendary1]

24. Apparently building Trump Towers at below minimum wage

isn't enough for these guys. The flag may not fly, but its ideals still live on it seems.

[Amimnoch]

25. whole new level of disgust with our opponents...

I thought this HAD to be some kind of spoof, or onion type of story.. THEN I though surely, this just HAD to be some kind of crazy exaggeration. Certainly, even the fringe of the teabaggers couldn't be THAT brazen in their remarks.

[randys1]

26. The average Brown immigrant, legal or otherwise, already does more work/labor in one day

than this pile of useless flesh has done in an entire lifetime.

I can say that without even knowing anything about him.

[KamaAina]

27. 12 Years An Idiot

actually many more than that.

[underpants]

43. +1

[Dont call me Shirley]

28. Did Mickelson take a tip from the Nazi playbook?

[Doctor_J]

30. there are so many hate radio hosts, they have to continually up the ante to get attention

The revolution will commence when people like this guy start getting disappeared.

[Ccarmona]

46. I agree

But giving attention to this craziness legitimizes it, but can we afford not to?
It's a double edged sword.

[yuiyoshida]

31. Republicans like this are disgusting...

their right wing ideology will be our eventual down fall if we aren't careful.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

32. It's like the stuff heard in a circle of stoners....

Only these guys are taking a hit of hate and passing it on.

[stage left]

33. The type of people

who have to ask what's wrong with slavery are the kind of people who need to be deported. Unbelievable.

[eppur_se_muova]

34. Yesterday's extreme is today's Republican mainstream. nt

[NewJeffCT]

44. you're right

I remember George Will on TV many years back basically calling anybody who didn't believe in Evolution an idiot. Now, not believing in evolution is the only way to win the Republican nomination.

[tclambert]

35. What has the party of Lincoln come to?

[heaven05]

36. perfect example

of the angry "toxic" white male in america today, all who want to run things and enslave POC, again..

[63splitwindow]

37. Just when you think they are scraping bottom...

the right wingnut wackos come up with an even more reprehensible idea straight from the bowels of hell. Surely they have "Satan laughing with delight" (in the words of Don McLean.)

[KyleMcShades]

39. The party of "freedom"...

once again exposing their true agenda.

[AlinPA]

40. This will appeal to the GOP. It won't be long before all the GOP candidates use this in their

campaigns.

[czarjak]

41. You have to ask?

[StanP50]

42. Worthless

This "What passes for a Human Being" is a worthless use of flesh and blood. Those are the only words I can come up with...sorry, toilet calling, must loose my lunch again after responding to this insanity.

[secondvariety]

45. What a slug.

Good thing he's in charge of nothing...

[sulphurdunn]

47. I wonder

how many lashes this sissy rat bastard's back could take, and how many days of sunup to sundown, back breaking labor he could endure before he had an epiphany about chattel slavery.

[Initech]

48. What's wrong with slavery? Didn't we fight a five year war over it?

[JanMichael]

49. Dude totally looks like that freak serial killer BTK!

Look up Dennis Rader and tell me I am not totally correct.

[47of74]

52. Yeah I think you're on to something.

[tabasco]

50. Striking resemblance to the BTK serial killer. n/t

[lonestarnot]

54. Was BTK fucking cloned?

Creepy fucker.

[PatrickforO]

51. AT first blush, this guy seems little more than a 'shock jock' - a guy

who says outrageous things to get more people to listen. But if you think about neoliberal capitalism and the direction this country is going with the GOP crazy conservatives in the US Congress and state legislatures, his statement becomes horrifying, as opposed to merely horrible. Because with the dehumanization of Americans perpetrated these last several decades by the GOP, it is the next logical step. We must remember that sadly, people LISTEN to this cretin and we must assume that many of his listeners actually AGREE with him.

This is why we need Bernie's political revolution. Because if we the people don't take back the government, it could happen.

[47of74]

53. It's not enough having Sen. Breadbags McCutyernutoff and the Stunning Steve King embarrass Iowa

It's not enough having Sen. Breadbags McCutyernutoff and the Stunning Steve King embarrass those of us here in Iowa.

This horse's ass has to get in on the action too.

Ugh.

[npk]

55. "well, what's wrong with slavery"

Well considering it almost tore apart the country and was the worse sin ever perpetrated, like ever, ever, I would say plenty.

[redruddyred]

56. this already exists

many places in the midwest employ immigrant slave labor, these people are supposedly indebted to their 'coyotes' for getting them across, never pay it off. there was a pbs documentary.

[DonCoquixote]

57. to all the defenders of the confederacy

And yes, I include the liberal ones who give the standard "The civil war was about state rights, yadda yadda" or "it's heritage note hate, yadda yadda."People like this fellow are EXACTLY why the Confederacy HAD to lose. We may not think there are people who would caryy it on to 2015, or perhaps we like to tell ourselves that whatever version of the CSA that survived would be more gentle, subtle, perhaps even less bigoted. The fact is, slavery, especially of browns and blacks, but by NO means limited to them, is a part of our culture, that we have only beaten back with the sort of effort it takes a heroin addict to not have that one more relapse. There are plenty, and not just the designated class clowns like Ann Coulter, that would gladly and completely pull this country back to where the only amendments respected are the first and second, and the first only because it allows churches. Yes, there may have indeed been many CSA fighting to get rid of slavery, but there would also be people, backed by the rich (like all radio jocks are) that would always say "well what about because of this?" which, to revisit the heroin analogy, is that sad same voice many "recovered addicts" hear before they did that "just one more time"and then become fodder for silent DU threads in memory of..

By the way, please think of people like this the next time people wonder why the BLM people put politeness aside. It's bad enough that high-tech lynchings (aka homicide by cop) has become routine, just like school shootings in general have become routine, and a thousand other horrors are now routine, but progress is fragile at best, and illusion at worst, and people like this will always be ready to roll back progress in favor of some golden age that, to paraphrase Tariq Ali "thankfully never was."

[lonestarnot]

59. Smoking hater.

[ancianita]

60. I see right wing media are giving Iowa a good workover. nt